In the recent months we have witnessed the meteoric rise of Bitcoin and many other cryptos. Its safe to say that we are now mainstream. As exciting as this may be to the industry i think we are now at a critical point, most especially in Africa. The reason cryptos have become popular is a convergence of trends, fall in confidence in traditional financial systems, ubiquity of internet connected devices, curiosity of an upcoming economically enabled informed young generation and growth of the sharing economy. What leadership do we really need, is it the marketplace leadership?

